repugnancy

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Repugnance.

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n. The quality or property of being repugnant.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Same as repugnance.

n. In law, inconsistency between two clauses or provisions in the same law or document, or in separate laws or documents that must be construed together.

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Examples

Upon this account, the Divine power is not said to extend to the working of any thing which implies a contradiction, and the terms whereof speak a repugnancy to one another, and mutually destroy one another, and the doing whereof is contrary to the nature of the thing which is supposed to be done; that is, is nonsense, and cannot be imagined to be.

A judgment of "repugnancy" versus"divergence" depended on the skill of legal argument: "If the English empire and Englishness required transatlantic uniformity, then some nonuniform colonial laws would be judged repugnant.

The repugnancy of the law of Delaware is placed entirely on its repugnancy to the law to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, a power which has not been exceeded as to affect this question.

In my lifetime, a period in which there has been radical changes in technology, I have not seen the sort of changes in attitudes that could support your position your reference about usury fails to take note of how much repugnancy has declined in the past three or four centuries.

We are therefore of opinion that there is no repugnancy between the several acts of the general assembly of Maryland, given in evidence by the defendants at the trial of this cause, in the court of that State, and the Constitution of the United States.